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Endocardium
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endocardium [‚en·dō′kärd·ē·əm]
(anatomy)
The membrane lining the heart.

Endocardium 

the endothelial lining membrane of the heart, folds of which form the cardiac valves. Inflammation of the endocardium is called endocarditis.



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Secondly, Jenni et al (9) propose a method based on recognition of a two-layer structure with a compacted thin epicardial band and a much thicker noncompacted endocardial layer of trabecular meshwork with deep endomyocardial spaces, supplied by intraventricular blood on color Doppler, where a maximal end-systolic thickness ratio of noncompacted to compacted layers of >2 is diagnostic.
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